This essay draws on ideas from the history of the natural sciences—on “personae” and “paper technology”—to explain how the subculture of social anthropology emerged at the London School of Economics in the 1930s. It argues that the figure of the social anthropologist coalesced around a number of practices and symbols that Bronislaw Malinowski had done much to imbue with charisma and that his students attempted to reproduce in their own research. Historians have proposed that part of social anthropology’s success lay in its practitioners’ ability to foster a fictive individualism in their writing, cultivating an inward attitude of experience founded on acts of the self upon the self. This essay shows that the kind of knowledge produced in Malinowski’s seminar was, in fact, a highly sociable, rather than an individualistic, affair. Social anthropologists in the 1930s constructed a mutually constitutive relationship of field and seminar. These were connected spaces, held together in the act of fieldwork—a practice that transcended and linked the geographical distance between the metropole and the periphery in the crucial years of the discipline’s development.

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构建战间社会人类学领域：权力、人格和造纸技术

这篇文章借鉴了自然科学史中关于“人格”和“纸技术”的思想，解释了社会人类学的亚文化是如何在 1930 年代在伦敦经济学院出现的。它认为，社会人类学家的形象围绕着布罗尼斯拉夫·马林诺夫斯基 (Bronislaw Malinowski) 为赋予超凡魅力所做的大量工作以及他的学生试图在他们自己的研究中复制的许多实践和符号结合在一起。历史学家提出，社会人类学的部分成功在于其实践者在他们的写作中培养虚构的个人主义的能力，培养一种基于自我对自我行为的内在体验态度。这篇文章表明，在马林诺夫斯基的研讨会中产生的那种知识实际上是一种高度社交的，而不是个人主义的事情。1930 年代的社会人类学家构建了场域和研讨班的相互构成关系。这些是相互连接的空间，在田野工作中结合在一起——在学科发展的关键时期，这种做法超越了大都市与外围之间的地理距离并将其联系起来。